ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2015
Dynamics of Pertussis Transmission in the United States.
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- Quantifying the impact of vaccination on pertussis dynamics in Sweden.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- A time-delayed mathematical framework for analyzing pertussis transmission dynamics.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Comparing frequentist and Bayesian methods to identify drivers of pathogen strain invasion: A temporal case study of pertussis in the United States.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2026Article
- Epidemiological characteristics and vaccination history analysis of pertussis in Quzhou from 2005 to 2024.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2026Article
- Pertussis resurgence after the COVID-19 pandemic in four Western Pacific Countries and the USA, highlighting the 2025 outbreak in Japan.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Seasonal synchronization and unpredictability in epidemic models with waning immunity and healthcare thresholds.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Association between pertussis vaccination coverage and other sociodemographic factors and pertussis incidence using surveillance data.Epidemics · 2023Article
- Dissecting recurrent waves of pertussis across the boroughs of London.PLoS computational biology · 2022Review
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- Implementation and adherence of routine pertussis vaccination (DTP) in a low-resource urban birth cohort.BMJ open · 2020Article
- Transient indicators of tipping points in infectious diseases.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
- Spatio-temporal analysis of Pertussis using geographic information system among Iranian population during 2012-2018.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2020Article
- Project Tycho 2.0: a repository to improve the integration and reuse of data for global population health.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2018Article
- Pertussis and the Minnesota State Fair: Demonstrating a Novel Setting for Efficiently Conducting Seroepidemiologic Studies.Journal of community health · 2018Article
- The impact of past vaccination coverage and immunity on pertussis resurgence.Science translational medicine · 2018Article
- Using age-stratified incidence data to examine the transmission consequences of pertussis vaccination.Epidemics · 2016Article
- Pertussis immunity and epidemiology: mode and duration of vaccine-induced immunity.Parasitology · 2016Article
- Editorial: Epidemiology in History--Three Years Later.American journal of epidemiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Past patterns of infectious disease transmission set the stage on which modern epidemiologic dynamics are played out. Here, we present a comprehensive account of pertussis (whooping cough) transmission in the United States during the early vaccine era. We analyzed recently digitized weekly incidence records from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports from 1938 to 1955, when the whole-cell pertussis vaccine was rolled out, and related them to contemporary patterns of transmission and resurgence documented in monthly incidence data from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. We found that, during the early vaccine era, pertussis epidemics in US states could be categorized as 1) annual, 2) initially annual and later multiennial, or 3) multiennial. States with predominantly annual cycles tended to have higher per capita birth rates, more household crowding, more children per family, and lower rates of school attendance than the states with multiennial cycles. Additionally, states that exhibited annual epidemics during 1938-1955 have had the highest recent (2001-2010) incidence, while those states that transitioned from annual cycles to multiennial cycles have had relatively low recent incidence. Our study provides an extensive picture of pertussis epidemiology in the United States dating back to the onset of vaccination, a back-story that could aid epidemiologists in understanding contemporary transmission patterns.
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